The UFO Files: The Inside Story of Real-life Sightings [Illustrated] [Paperback]

`Reveals details about UFO sightings over British skies ... gives new insights into an incident known as "Britain's Roswell" as well as the belief in UFOs by high ranking defence officials'. --Sunday Telegraph--<br /><br />...it is a rich and varied volume, and one which should grace the shelf of anyone interested in the UFO subject. --UFO Warminster website<br /><br />One of the few UFO books I could conscientiously recommend to an innocent but curious friend --UFOlogyinuk newsgroup

Based on Britain's own version of the X-Files ... it is a thorough and highly readable trawl through the Files. --Sheffield Star

One of the few UFO books I could conscientiously recommend to an innocent but curious friend --UFOlogyinuk newsgroup

'What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?' Winston Churchill, 28 July 1952.

THE UFO FILES tells the story of over 100 years of UFO sightings, drawing on formerly secret government records at the National Archives. Alongside extraordinary reports by ordinary people it reveals details of official interest and investigations stretching back to before the First World War for although the terms UFO and Flying Saucer were not coined until the middle of the twentieth century, people have long seen things in the sky that they could not explain.

In this remarkable book David Clarke reveals an array of startling stories from possible UFO reports hidden among Met Office investigations of aerial phenomena in the 1920s to the conclusions of Project Condign, the hush-hush British Intelligence UFO study completed in 2000. As well as covering Roswell and Britain's own Rendlesham Forest mystery, Clarke raids the records for dramatic stories of abductions and close encounters, ghost aircraft and crop circles, and UFO reports by civilian aircrew and military personnel.

Dramatic witness statements and interviews many undertaken by the author himself combine with rarely seen photographs, drawings and newly available documents to offer a unique guide to one of our most intriguing mysteries.

DAVID CLARKE is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University. He has a long standing interest in UFOs and other aerial phenomena, and has worked with The National Archives in promoting UFO material recently released by the Ministry of Defence.